#geoethics — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #geoethics, aggregated by home.social.
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Geospatial Data As Bioethical Evidence
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https://doi.org/10.4401/jgsg-111 <-- shared paper
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https://theconversation.com/gaza-we-analysed-a-year-of-satellite-images-to-map-the-scale-of-agricultural-destruction-248796 <-- shared technical article
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inside-the-satellite-tech-revealing-gazas-destruction/ <-- shared 2023 technical article
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“Satellite imagery now documents systematic patterns of infrastructure destruction at spatial resolutions and temporal cadences that were unavailable during the atrocities of the twentieth century. Whether and how such data may enter bioethical deliberation, however, remains under-theorized. Quantitative remote sensing produces damage percentages, not normative claims, and bridging the two without committing an is-ought fallacy requires an explicit epistemological procedure. The contribution developed here is normative and epistemological rather than empirical. A six-component admissibility framework integrates, for the first time, geospatial evidence, population-level bioethical principlism, and the coherentist verification epistemology of political fact-checking into a single reproducible procedure for the bioethical use of satellite imagery. The first component specifies evidence admissibility criteria tailored to bioethical rather than strictly legal use. The second requires coherentist triangulation across methodologically independent remote sensing studies. The third operates as a bioethical relevance filter mapping infrastructure categories onto population-level social determinants of health. The fourth operationalizes principlism by translating health justice, accountability, solidarity, and sustainability into measurable geospatial observables. The fifth establishes ethical representation safeguards against voyeuristic or dehumanizing uses of destruction imagery. The sixth demands explicit epistemic humility regarding uncertainty, data missingness, and attribution limits. The Gaza conflict provides the case in point. Two independently produced geospatial studies, one based on SAR coherent change detection and one on very-high-resolution optical analysis, converge on extensive damage to civilian healthcare, water, sanitation, and educational infrastructure, and thereby satisfy the coherentist triangulation requirement of the framework. The resulting inference licenses bioethical claims of systematic survival infrastructure degradation while preserving transparent boundaries between what satellite evidence can and cannot establish about genocidal intent…”
#geoethics #GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #imagery #satellite #opendata #conflict #war #military #destruction #infrastructure #spatiotemporal #bioethical #evidence #damagepercentages #spatialanalysis #change #quantitative #metrics #normative #epistemological #admissibility #framework #factchecking #controlled #publicsafety #publichealth #healthjustice #geospatialobservables #observation #uncertainty #controls #boundaries #changedetection #coherentisttriangulation #example #gaza -
Geospatial Data As Bioethical Evidence
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https://doi.org/10.4401/jgsg-111 <-- shared paper
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https://theconversation.com/gaza-we-analysed-a-year-of-satellite-images-to-map-the-scale-of-agricultural-destruction-248796 <-- shared technical article
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inside-the-satellite-tech-revealing-gazas-destruction/ <-- shared 2023 technical article
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“Satellite imagery now documents systematic patterns of infrastructure destruction at spatial resolutions and temporal cadences that were unavailable during the atrocities of the twentieth century. Whether and how such data may enter bioethical deliberation, however, remains under-theorized. Quantitative remote sensing produces damage percentages, not normative claims, and bridging the two without committing an is-ought fallacy requires an explicit epistemological procedure. The contribution developed here is normative and epistemological rather than empirical. A six-component admissibility framework integrates, for the first time, geospatial evidence, population-level bioethical principlism, and the coherentist verification epistemology of political fact-checking into a single reproducible procedure for the bioethical use of satellite imagery. The first component specifies evidence admissibility criteria tailored to bioethical rather than strictly legal use. The second requires coherentist triangulation across methodologically independent remote sensing studies. The third operates as a bioethical relevance filter mapping infrastructure categories onto population-level social determinants of health. The fourth operationalizes principlism by translating health justice, accountability, solidarity, and sustainability into measurable geospatial observables. The fifth establishes ethical representation safeguards against voyeuristic or dehumanizing uses of destruction imagery. The sixth demands explicit epistemic humility regarding uncertainty, data missingness, and attribution limits. The Gaza conflict provides the case in point. Two independently produced geospatial studies, one based on SAR coherent change detection and one on very-high-resolution optical analysis, converge on extensive damage to civilian healthcare, water, sanitation, and educational infrastructure, and thereby satisfy the coherentist triangulation requirement of the framework. The resulting inference licenses bioethical claims of systematic survival infrastructure degradation while preserving transparent boundaries between what satellite evidence can and cannot establish about genocidal intent…”
#geoethics #GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #imagery #satellite #opendata #conflict #war #military #destruction #infrastructure #spatiotemporal #bioethical #evidence #damagepercentages #spatialanalysis #change #quantitative #metrics #normative #epistemological #admissibility #framework #factchecking #controlled #publicsafety #publichealth #healthjustice #geospatialobservables #observation #uncertainty #controls #boundaries #changedetection #coherentisttriangulation #example #gaza -
I was awarded the #Geoethics Medal from the International Association for Promoting Geoethics (IAPG) and the medal arrived! Such honours are not about the individual, but are about working collectively. These prizes reflect my predecessors and collaborators. Thank you!
#iapg #drr #GlobalHealth #DisasterRiskReduction #ethics #ResearchEthics -
I was awarded the #Geoethics Medal from the International Association for Promoting Geoethics (IAPG) and the medal arrived! Such honours are not about the individual, but are about working collectively. These prizes reflect my predecessors and collaborators. Thank you!
#iapg #drr #GlobalHealth #DisasterRiskReduction #ethics #ResearchEthics -
Aerial LiDAR Mapping Can Reveal Archaeological Sites - Whilst Overlooking Indigenous Peoples And Their Knowledge
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https://theconversation.com/aerial-lidar-mapping-can-reveal-archaeological-sites-while-overlooking-indigenous-peoples-and-their-knowledge-261332 <-- shared technical article
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#GIS #spatial #remotesensing #earthobservation #mapping #earthobservation #LiDARArchaeology #LiDAR #archaeology #Archeology #FirstNation #indigenous #perspectives #digitalcolonialism #western #researchers #community #involvement #stakeholders #science #survey #conservation #discovery #archaeologists #geoethics -
Aerial LiDAR Mapping Can Reveal Archaeological Sites - Whilst Overlooking Indigenous Peoples And Their Knowledge
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https://theconversation.com/aerial-lidar-mapping-can-reveal-archaeological-sites-while-overlooking-indigenous-peoples-and-their-knowledge-261332 <-- shared technical article
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#GIS #spatial #remotesensing #earthobservation #mapping #earthobservation #LiDARArchaeology #LiDAR #archaeology #Archeology #FirstNation #indigenous #perspectives #digitalcolonialism #western #researchers #community #involvement #stakeholders #science #survey #conservation #discovery #archaeologists #geoethics -
Safeguarding Spatial Sovereignty in the Age of Rapidly Refreshed Machine-Readable Terrain
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https://peacelovefreedom.com/mapping/safeguarding-spatial-sovereignty-in-the-age-of-rapidly-refreshed-machine-readable-terrain/ <-- shared technical article / ‘editorial’
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H/T @JordanRegenie
“The map is not the territory.” ~ Alfred Korzybski
“As LiDAR becomes rapidly refreshed, globally available, and directly ingested by machines, the question is no longer what we can measure.
It’s whether humans retain the ability to understand, intervene in, and redirect how those measurements are used over time.
This article focuses on spatial sovereignty, not as a policy position, but as a design discipline, and on why alignment with established standards is becoming a prerequisite for effective scale…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #map #spatialsovereignty #sovereignty #alldataisspatial #OnExactitudeinScience #indigenous #Borges #territory #AI #AIsystems #ThreeLawsOfRobotics #governance #framework #policy #planning #agency #humanagencty #philosophy #approach #involvement #license #geoethics #socialjustice -
Safeguarding Spatial Sovereignty in the Age of Rapidly Refreshed Machine-Readable Terrain
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https://peacelovefreedom.com/mapping/safeguarding-spatial-sovereignty-in-the-age-of-rapidly-refreshed-machine-readable-terrain/ <-- shared technical article / ‘editorial’
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H/T @JordanRegenie
“The map is not the territory.” ~ Alfred Korzybski
“As LiDAR becomes rapidly refreshed, globally available, and directly ingested by machines, the question is no longer what we can measure.
It’s whether humans retain the ability to understand, intervene in, and redirect how those measurements are used over time.
This article focuses on spatial sovereignty, not as a policy position, but as a design discipline, and on why alignment with established standards is becoming a prerequisite for effective scale…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #map #spatialsovereignty #sovereignty #alldataisspatial #OnExactitudeinScience #indigenous #Borges #territory #AI #AIsystems #ThreeLawsOfRobotics #governance #framework #policy #planning #agency #humanagencty #philosophy #approach #involvement #license #geoethics #socialjustice -
Recently published:
1. "Planetary Dysregulation and Our #MentalHealth" https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/disaster-by-choice/202510/planetary-dysregulation-and-our-mental-health
2. "The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown on #Health and #ClimateChange" https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01919-1/abstract #ClimateHealth #HealthClimate
3. "Operational #Ethics for Researching #Geohazards" https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-03754-1_5 #Geoethics
#DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters). -
📆Save the date for this #EGU science for policy #hangout on Monday, 4 August 2025 at 14:00 CEST.
In this session Asmae Ourkiya will explore how #geoethics, an ethical framework rooted in #geoscience, can be enriched by exploring queer, intersectional perspectives.
Register here: https://egu.eu/7L9YUE/
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📆Save the date for this #EGU science for policy #hangout on Monday, 4 August 2025 at 14:00 CEST.
In this session Asmae Ourkiya will explore how #geoethics, an ethical framework rooted in #geoscience, can be enriched by exploring queer, intersectional perspectives.
Register here: https://egu.eu/7L9YUE/
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Ecosystem Mapping For Carbon Credit Schemes
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https://ethicalgeo.org/ecosystem-mapping-for-carbon-credit-schemes/ <-- shared technical article
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https://www.northernkenyacommunitycarbon.org/where-we-work <-- shared link to case study, Northern Kenyan Rangelands Carbon project
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https://doi.org/10.9734/ijecc/2024/v14i74265 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #carboncredit #carboncreditmarket #Kenya #NorthernKenyaRangelands #CarbonProject #rangelands #geoethics #bloodcarbon #EthicalGEO #carbonsequestration #spatialanalysis #ethics #ethical #grassland #communityconsent #businessinterests #economics #business #transparency #indigenous #landrights #localcommunities # #commodity #commoditisation #ecology #ecosystems #management #planning -
Ecosystem Mapping For Carbon Credit Schemes
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https://ethicalgeo.org/ecosystem-mapping-for-carbon-credit-schemes/ <-- shared technical article
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https://www.northernkenyacommunitycarbon.org/where-we-work <-- shared link to case study, Northern Kenyan Rangelands Carbon project
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https://doi.org/10.9734/ijecc/2024/v14i74265 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #carboncredit #carboncreditmarket #Kenya #NorthernKenyaRangelands #CarbonProject #rangelands #geoethics #bloodcarbon #EthicalGEO #carbonsequestration #spatialanalysis #ethics #ethical #grassland #communityconsent #businessinterests #economics #business #transparency #indigenous #landrights #localcommunities # #commodity #commoditisation #ecology #ecosystems #management #planning -
Introduction - Geoethics For The Future
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https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-15654-0.00034-7 <-- shared link to volume
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[disclaimer: sharing of this link should not be seen as an endorsement]
#anthropocene #geoethics #global #anthropogenic #change #socialgeosciences #societal #relevance #geosciences #GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #ethics #geology #resources #naturalresources #ecosystems #ecology #water #earthscience #humanimpacts #Interdisciplinary #sustainability #risk #hazard #responsibilities #interaction -
Introduction - Geoethics For The Future
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https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-15654-0.00034-7 <-- shared link to volume
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[disclaimer: sharing of this link should not be seen as an endorsement]
#anthropocene #geoethics #global #anthropogenic #change #socialgeosciences #societal #relevance #geosciences #GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #ethics #geology #resources #naturalresources #ecosystems #ecology #water #earthscience #humanimpacts #Interdisciplinary #sustainability #risk #hazard #responsibilities #interaction -
New chapter on the Buzzwordcene https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-15654-0.00024-4
Challenging #Anthropocene #SocialEcologicalSystems #PlanetaryBoundaries #EarthSystemBoundaries #SocialCapital #ClimateCrisis and more.
See also:
1. https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/2023/01/25/planetary-boundaries-a-framework-against-geodynamics
2. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003017653-16/planetary-boundaries-ilan-kelman
#Sustainability #SustainableDevelopment #GeoEthics -
The U.S. Has Special Rules For Satellites Over One Country – Israel [data availability & resolution]
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https://www.npr.org/2023/11/16/1212889717/satellite-images-us-israel-gaza <-- shared media article
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[this is NOT a post about politics & related]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #geoint #satellite #satelliteimagery #satellitedata #geoethics #ethics #rulesofengagement #israel #USA #military #conflict #gisequity #geopolitics -
The U.S. Has Special Rules For Satellites Over One Country – Israel [data availability & resolution]
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https://www.npr.org/2023/11/16/1212889717/satellite-images-us-israel-gaza <-- shared media article
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[this is NOT a post about politics & related]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #geoint #satellite #satelliteimagery #satellitedata #geoethics #ethics #rulesofengagement #israel #USA #military #conflict #gisequity #geopolitics -
Education Lies Beneath the Clouds of Earth Observation
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https://eos.org/editor-highlights/education-lies-beneath-the-clouds-of-earth-observation <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2023AV000894 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #gischat #remotesensing #satellite #earthobservation #cloudcomputing #cloudstorage #education #EO #learning #teachingmethods #opensource #ethics #public #geoethics #stakeholders #social #cultural #environmental #publichealth #climatechange #usecases #appliedscience #global #changes #earth #datasources #opendata #usercommunity #students #scientists #educators #researchers #contributions -
Education Lies Beneath the Clouds of Earth Observation
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https://eos.org/editor-highlights/education-lies-beneath-the-clouds-of-earth-observation <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2023AV000894 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #gischat #remotesensing #satellite #earthobservation #cloudcomputing #cloudstorage #education #EO #learning #teachingmethods #opensource #ethics #public #geoethics #stakeholders #social #cultural #environmental #publichealth #climatechange #usecases #appliedscience #global #changes #earth #datasources #opendata #usercommunity #students #scientists #educators #researchers #contributions -
#Geoethics teaching resources from the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College.
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#Geoethics teaching resources from the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College.
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Abortion Clinics And Misleading Google Maps [geoethics]
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https://ethicalgeo.org/abortion-clinics-and-misleading-google-maps/ <-- shared GeoEthics article
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https://www.businessinsider.com/google-maps-searches-abortion-services-trigger-abortion-fake-clincs-2022-6 <-- shared media article
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“[A] new analysis by Bloomberg has found the [Google Maps] platform routinely misleads people searching for abortion providers and clinics. When users search the words “abortion clinic” in Google Maps, nearly a quarter of the top 10 search results, on average and across all 50 states including Washington D.C., belong to crisis pregnancy centers. Crisis pregnancy centers, or CPCs, are a type of non-medical organizations with a mission to encourage women to go through with their unwanted pregnancies…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #Google #GoogleMaps #inaccurate #false #ethics #geoethics #ethicsmatters #ethicalbusiness #ethicsmatters #ethicalresearch #maps #abortion #abortionclinics #accessibility #CPC #reproductivehealth #searchengines #reproductivemedicine #womanhealth #publichealth #publicsafety #people #share #medical -
Abortion Clinics And Misleading Google Maps [geoethics]
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https://ethicalgeo.org/abortion-clinics-and-misleading-google-maps/ <-- shared GeoEthics article
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https://www.businessinsider.com/google-maps-searches-abortion-services-trigger-abortion-fake-clincs-2022-6 <-- shared media article
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“[A] new analysis by Bloomberg has found the [Google Maps] platform routinely misleads people searching for abortion providers and clinics. When users search the words “abortion clinic” in Google Maps, nearly a quarter of the top 10 search results, on average and across all 50 states including Washington D.C., belong to crisis pregnancy centers. Crisis pregnancy centers, or CPCs, are a type of non-medical organizations with a mission to encourage women to go through with their unwanted pregnancies…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #Google #GoogleMaps #inaccurate #false #ethics #geoethics #ethicsmatters #ethicalbusiness #ethicsmatters #ethicalresearch #maps #abortion #abortionclinics #accessibility #CPC #reproductivehealth #searchengines #reproductivemedicine #womanhealth #publichealth #publicsafety #people #share #medical -
Our volunteer Bärbel Winkler filed her daily report from the 2023 EGU General Assembly.
The post includes a laundry list of nuances and subtleties in communicating science to the general public in contexts fraught with hazard, risk and public policy implications, from the session "Beyond SciComm 101: what is meaningful & ethical communication when it comes to the climate crisis?"
Shouting loudly is a bit too simple? It seems so.
#ClimateCommunication
#Geoethics
https://skepticalscience.com/egu23-personal-diary.htm?SkS+Mastodonl#Thursday -
Our volunteer Bärbel Winkler filed her daily report from the 2023 EGU General Assembly.
The post includes a laundry list of nuances and subtleties in communicating science to the general public in contexts fraught with hazard, risk and public policy implications, from the session "Beyond SciComm 101: what is meaningful & ethical communication when it comes to the climate crisis?"
Shouting loudly is a bit too simple? It seems so.
#ClimateCommunication
#Geoethics
https://skepticalscience.com/egu23-personal-diary.htm?SkS+Mastodonl#Thursday -
In her usual mode of wearing many hats our volunteer Bärbel Winkler reports in from EGU General Assembly 2023, where yesterday she and co-volunteer John Mason presented "Adding plain language summaries to rebuttals on Skeptical Science" as part of the all-day workshop "Science and Society: Science Communication Practice, Research, and Reflection."
A wealth of experience and case examples for science communicators in the abstracts alone. Click and learn!
https://skepticalscience.com/egu23-personal-diary.html?SkS+Mastodon#Tuesday
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In her usual mode of wearing many hats our volunteer Bärbel Winkler reports in from EGU General Assembly 2023, where yesterday she and co-volunteer John Mason presented "Adding plain language summaries to rebuttals on Skeptical Science" as part of the all-day workshop "Science and Society: Science Communication Practice, Research, and Reflection."
A wealth of experience and case examples for science communicators in the abstracts alone. Click and learn!
https://skepticalscience.com/egu23-personal-diary.html?SkS+Mastodon#Tuesday
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#Geoethics. "The values and professional standards required of geoscientists to responsibly work in the profession and in service to society."
Here are several resources for #teachers and #students to prompt discussions about #ethics in the #geosciences.
Part of the Science Education Resource Center, a grant-funded office at #Carleton College
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#Geoethics. "The values and professional standards required of geoscientists to responsibly work in the profession and in service to society."
Here are several resources for #teachers and #students to prompt discussions about #ethics in the #geosciences.
Part of the Science Education Resource Center, a grant-funded office at #Carleton College
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Are you planning to attend #EGU23 in Vienna or virtually in April?
Please consider contributing to the #climate / #ocean #education and #geoethics sessions at the next EGU conference, in April 2023 to present on Climate & ocean education (literacy) at EGU2023.
Please also forward to colleagues. Thanks!